Two More Thinking Skills Assignments.

1.  Journal-  Tell me a story about a time you were REALLY embarrassed.

2.  Attendance.

3.  Lateral Thinking Skills Quiz-

4.  Read "A Hanging" by George Orwell, and create 10 TS questions for another to answer...

Thinking Skill Focus: Inference...

1.  Attendance.

2.  Journal/question switch.

Please read the following short poems by Robert Frost and Sara Teasdale, respectively.  Choose one and, using your thinking skills, explain what you think it means and why you think what you think it means.  :)

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.


Let It Be Forgotten

Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten,

   Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold,

Let it be forgotten for ever and ever,

   Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

If anyone asks, say it was forgotten

   Long and long ago,

As a flower, as a fire, as a hushed footfall

   In a long forgotten snow.

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3.  Inference tests....  Number 1-  in groups.

Babe Smith has been killed. Police have rounded up six suspects, all of whom are known gangsters. All of them are known to have been near the scene of the killing at the approximate time that it occurred. All had substantial motives for wanting Smith killed. However, one of these suspected gangsters, Slinky Sam, has positively been cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  1.                  Slinky Sam is known to have been near the scene of the killing of Babe Smith.

T  F  ?  2.                  All six of the rounded-up gangsters were known to have been near the scene of the murder.

T  F  ?  3.                  Only Slinky Sam has been cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  4.                  All six of the rounded-up suspects were near the scene of Smith's killing at the approximate time that it took place.

T  F  ?  5.                  S. The police do not know who killed Smith.

T  F  ?  6.                  All six suspects are known to have been near the scene of foul deed.

T  F  ?  7.                  Smith's murderer did not confess of his own free will.

T  F  ?  8.                  Slinky Sam was not cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  9.                  It is known that the six suspects were in the vicinity of the cold-blooded assassination.

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   A businessman had just turned off the lights in the store when a man appeared and demanded money. The owner opened a cash register. The contents of the cash register were scooped up and the man sped away. A member of the police force was notified promptly.

           

T  F  ?  1.                  A man appeared after the owner had turned off his store lights.

T  F  ?  2.                  The robber was a man.

T  F  ?  3.                  The man who appeared did not demand money.

T  F  ?  4.                  The man who opened the cash register was the owner.

T  F  ?  5.                  The store-owner scooped up the contents of the cash register and ran away.

T  F  ?  6.                  Someone opened a cash register.

T  F  ?  7.                  After the man, who demanded the money, scooped up the contents of the cash register, he ran away.

T  F  ?  8.                  While the cash register contained money, the story does not state how much.

T  F  ?  9.                  The robber demanded money of the owner.

T  F  ?  10.              The robber opened the cash register.

T  F  ?  11.              After the store lights were turned off a man appeared.

T  F  ?  12.              The robber did not take the money with him.

T  F  ?  13.              The robber did not demand money of the owner.

T  F  ?  14.              The owner opened a cash register.

T  F  ?  15.              The age of the store-owner was not revealed in the story.

T  F  ?  16.              Taking the contents of the cash register with him, the man ran out of the store.

T  F  ?  17.              The story concerns a series of events in which only three persons are referred to: the owner of the store, a man who demanded money. and a member of the police force.

T  F  ?  18.              The following events were included in the story: someone demanded money. a cash register was opened, its contents were scooped up, and a mall dashed out of the store.

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HW-  Read Fish Cheeks, by Amy Tan and create 10 TS questions for another in class to answer.

HW-  Finish the first inference test we didn't complete in class (STORY A).   To access it, please click here.

Questions and Groups..Thinking Skills, Cont.

1.  Journal-

When have you judged something by how it looked?  Were you right?  Wrong?  What is a fact?  What's truth? 

2.  Interviews, cont?

3.  Partners and questions.... In class.

4.  Plath Discussion...

5.  HW-  Read- Mother Tongue.  Create- 10 thinking skill questions for another to answer.

Partner interviews...

1-   Journal-  

When did you know something to be true, believe it to be true, and then find out you were wrong?  What happened?

2-  Groups and Interviews…

3-  Partner presentations

4-  HW-- Please read this poem and create 10 questions using 10 different thinking skills for another student in class to answer.


BOOKS-  Have Patterns by Jan 30th. 

Thinking Skills Introduction-

1.  Attendance-

1.2.  HW? 

2.  Long journal, with quizzes and experiments-

What did you learn about your perception of the world from what we just completed?

3.  Thinking Skills notes...

4.  HW-  Questions for partner interviews...

Welcome To Class

Welcome!

Welcome to Class!

1.  Class procedures...  Attendance


2.  Journal: (We start with one every day.  At least 1/2 a page.)

When you're taking a new class, it's a good idea to think about what you want out of that class.  What do you want out of this one?

3.  Syllabus and books...  (legal stuff)


4.  Diagnostic Essay... "The Art of Authorship" by  Mark Twain  

      Please read the following essay and respond to these questions:

1.  What is Mark Twain claiming about writing or his writing process?
2.  Do you agree or disagree and why?

  Please be sure to write an essay in response that offers your potential read a beginning, middle and end.


5.  Please finish and print your essay in MLA format.


6.   Homework... Follow this link and complete the "Improving Information Literacy Skills" tutorial provided by our excellent library.  Please print out your final score and bring it to class.

7.  Homework:  Access and print out the last page of the syllabus.  Please return with it signed.